Pony given me a black eye - injuries please !!

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Yup, we were having a lovely cuddle, he moved his head, and hit my under-eye bone (??) with his cheek. I started to notice a lump coming up out of the corner of my eye, now the size of a marble, and a lovely shiner is brewing up :o....

This closely follows me leading him, and somehow getting my hand trapped in the stable door, back of my hand swelled up to golf ball size, and that involved an xray.. this was only three weeks ago :rolleyes:

Am I the most lump - ridden, bruised person here ?

Answers on a postcard, curly wurlys all round if you can make me feel like less of an idiot :p sm x
 
Ouchh poor you!! My old pony did this to me last year... everyone must have thought I'd been in a fight or something :p
I've broken my big toe being trod on, about 2 years ago :p
Thats about it really... Hope you heal quickly!
 
Most recent is getting kicked in the elbow after being given an involuntary flying lesson! It was huge! The boys on the yard strapped me up with gamgee of all things! They mean well!

Does that deserve a curly wurly - they're my fave!
 
Oh oh oh I remembered another one.... Cracked my chin open on the jump falling off doing XC when I was about 8! Horrid!
And cracked my collar bone last year when my pony stopped at a fence and chucked her head up and whacked my shoulder!

Curly Wurly please!! :D
 
ouch!

Any consolation I have seriously aching legs from a week and a half now of having to ride hairy cob bareback every day twice a day! Inluding 1hr30-2hr hacking

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How many curly wurlys you got ?:D
I am so acident prone my riding intructor has even given up trying to teach me to jump as she is fed up of watching me fall off and hurting my self.:eek:
Last year My boy head butted me in the face and broke some of my teeth:eek:,
I also fell of and ended up in hospital with suspected broken back neck and leg but was ok (not sure if the road was afterards though) a month later.:eek:
Got back on a couple of months later after i had heeled fell off again broke my wrist this time and damaged the muscles in my sholder.:eek:
Got board of this so decided to involve my pony with the next accident ,bless her she has a fear of vets so when her jab was due she reared up and wraped her legs round my shoulder my knees went from under me and she ended up standing on my leg and kicked my ear with one of her front feet she might be small but shes a little madam :rolleyes:so thought i'm better of with the big guy who headbutted me in the face for 2nd time so had a hudge nose bleed and it was sore for weeks after. and all in one year:D
 
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Hurrah I don't feel quite to much of an idiot now....it's not just me!!! I am off to the hairdresser now, and will have to make it plain that this is NOT domestic abuse !! :eek::p

Curly wurlys all round xxxxxx
 
Lol. I got a black eye a while back, kinda embarrasing. I was dealing with stallions and younstock all day every day and managed to get a black eye off the nicest, most laid back gelding on the yard. My fault, I was washing his feet and lent across in front of one forleg to scrub the opposite one and he shifted his weight, bent his knee slightly and clocked me on the cheekbone. Lovely shiner and a big blush.
 
Well last year I was backing out of a stable with a wheelbarrow and managed to trip over backwards and break my arm! Horse on box rest was standing there looking very cross with me because he knew that Mummy had hurt herself and wouldn't be able to do everything for him! :D I got very good at bandaging and poulticing one handed I can tell you! ;)
 
I'm soooooooooooo embarrassed - come up a corker. You don't half get funny looks when you've got a shiner, and this is my first. And hopefully my last :D
 
Ohh I have a load of these ;)
Have had numerous broken bones, including a broken finger and thumb from a polo pony getting overexcited and my hand getting caught in reins, broken collarbone, ankle, foot (twice), concussion several times, hairline fracture of coccyx.
Most recently, I had a really stupid one which also resulted in a black eye :O It was with my new horse last week, the second day he arrived. I bent down to take off his front boot, ran my hand down his leg to let him know- well trained beast that he is, he thought I was asking him to pick up his foot...very obligingly did so, and socked me in the face with his knee :o He was as shocked as I was, poor thing, and shot to the back of his stable!! I had a shiner, it's fading now though- good thing as I'm getting a little bored of jokes along the 'your new horse doesn't like you then' lines ;)
My most impressive one was last summer, our school riding team took a trip to the beach at the end of term, and my temperamental TB reared with me in the water, I was completely taken aback, and got properly smacked in the face, it was really painful- and embarassing!
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Arm - when we slipped on the road:
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Brain - when she went left, and I didn't lol (the light coloured swoosh shape is the bit that's wrong):
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Hope your eye improves quickly! Have a hot choccy to keep you going.

*munches Curly Wurly* :D
 
Dislocated jaw from Ali boy wanting his head rubbed, knocked me clear onto the floor and I now have a permament click when I talk/eat and in the cold weather my jaw can get stuck - nice :)
 
I fell of while looking after an event yard last summer, set off to ride a youngster at 8am, the next thin I knew it was 11am-ish and I was waking up in the middle of a field, soaking wet and without a horse! A farmer had found the horse and came looking for me, a air ambulance, road ambulance, 3 lots of xrays, an MRI scan, 15 hours on a back board and 2 hospitals later I was allow home with just mild concusson! It was awful, I was 300 miles from home, knew knowone, couldnt call anyone as I was stuck to a board with big pads either side of my head! After the first 2 lots of xrays they told me I had broken my neck, which I hadnt.

Last month I got squished between a horse, and electric fence and a gate post, bruised and cut my back and broke 2 ribs which hurt like hell!
 
lillith said:
Lol. I got a black eye a while back, kinda embarrasing. I was dealing with stallions and younstock all day every day and managed to get a black eye off the nicest, most laid back gelding on the yard. My fault, I was washing his feet and lent across in front of one forleg to scrub the opposite one and he shifted his weight, bent his knee slightly and clocked me on the cheekbone. Lovely shiner and a big blush.
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Same happened to me but I got a fat lip instead of a black eye....its more embarrassing when you have no spectacular story to go with the injury!
 
Old boy has a BAD habit of having a roll... with his legs facing up hill!!!!! The V E R Y last time he did this I noticed when I was looking out of the window from the house. 5 minutes later he was still down so I went charging out of the house - avoiding the electric fencing on my headlong charge! He was fully rugged because it was a little ehilly nips that day.

I had to try to undo the rugs and hopefully not panic him in the process. I had all but 1 clip undone, leant across, just as his head snapped up and connected with mine...

The biggest mistake I made was phoning mom with the question "how are you?" I had spoken to her about half an hour before! Ooops! Followed by a quick call to my OH who had just gone to work. He turned round and came straight back, by which time I had zig zagged to our next door neighbours for help. By the time I got back to the field (old boy never out of my sight) he was a little calmer for us to pull him round and for him to get up. OH turned up to see me swaying! I had lost about a week in memory and had a shiner as a credible war wound.

Note to self - NEVER phone mom after bumping heads with horse!!!

The old boy is now NEVER turned out in a field with ANY kind of slope!!! :D
 
I went to try a horse yesterday, ended up on the floor twice. (he was 16.2, wish I'd gone to look at a little one now) I'm just a walking bruise today with a swollen ankle.

Why do we do it?!!??!
 
I got a humungous haematoma (sp) on my bottom, swollen ankle and bruises galore from involuntarilty parting company with my old tb at a gallop on a hack with a 13 year old girl (really must act my age) that was nearly 3 years ago, i've been under the hospital since and besides surgery which they are still reluctant to do, nothing so far has worked on diminishing the haematoma (wouldn't mine but i've got a fat butt anyway let alone having a lump on top of it !!!)
 
Belle stood on my foot today when she wouldn't stand still for me to get on. At the time I just pushed her off and didn't think much of it but now it bloomin hurts!

I hope that your black eye clears up soon, get as much sympathy as possible in the meantime. :D
 
Captain has never been clumsy until last summer, hehad never stood on anyone's feet etc. He stood on my little toe twice in 2 hours and broke it, I was hopping around for the rest of the hols. :(
 
rotated kneecap from trying to weave through a set of horsegates at speed when younger.

worst injury was as a kid we were jousting with broom handles & got told off as we maty hurt the ponies so we opted for push bikes & pitchfork/broom combo, all was fine till nan came out & saw us. her scream made my big brother look at her & not where he was going (at me!!!) so i ended up with pitch fork to leg.
still got the 2 scars from it too.
 
more recient a nose bleed , he was eating his dinner went to put headcollar on ,hes grabbed load of food came back up as i was just bent over to put headcollar on , smacked me on nose , nose went crunch ,next min i knew my nose was dripping with blood , i really did think he had broken it ,it took half ahour to stop it
 
lillith said:
Lol. I got a black eye a while back, kinda embarrasing. I was dealing with stallions and younstock all day every day and managed to get a black eye off the nicest, most laid back gelding on the yard. My fault, I was washing his feet and lent across in front of one forleg to scrub the opposite one and he shifted his weight, bent his knee slightly and clocked me on the cheekbone. Lovely shiner and a big blush.
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I am so glad I am not the only person who can manage to get kneed in the face lol

I have a nice bruise on my cheek currently as I went to pull out my friends four year old's front legs after girthing him up and he shifted his leg quicker than I expected and got my cheekbone nicely with his knee. :o
 
Went to my OH's Xmas do in 2008 with a black eye from being headbutted in the stable by my horse when changing her rug. Went to his Xmas do last year after agreeing to help my friend by putting purple spray on her pony's cut. Didn't concentrate on what I was doing and had the nozzle round the wrong way and sprayed my face :eek:. Not really an injury but still injury related! OH work colleagues aren't horsey and are possibly wondering about what we get up to at home!:D:o
 
I'm so glad it's not just me ! I just forget this shiner is there, till I go to get horse feed or into town and peeps do a double take. I'm quite proud that it happened while we were having a lovely cuddle, and bless him, most of the time he's worked out that he needs to lift his head over mine - took some time that, and a lot of knocks.
 
Aoibhin said:
rotated kneecap from trying to weave through a set of horsegates at speed when younger.

worst injury was as a kid we were jousting with broom handles & got told off as we maty hurt the ponies so we opted for push bikes & pitchfork/broom combo, all was fine till nan came out & saw us. her scream made my big brother look at her & not where he was going (at me!!!) so i ended up with pitch fork to leg.
still got the 2 scars from it too.
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LOL thats a classic case of responsible adults really should stop interfearing with childrens fun ;-)
What a funny story....shame about the pitchfork in the leg!!!

Poor OP....hope your lump/bruise goes down v soon.

Im fairly accident prone.
I think the wost one i had was about 15 years ago when i had just started to learn to ride. I wanted to go on a stable day but mum said no as it was the day before we were going skiing.....so as us little girls do....i went to dad :-D who said i could go on the stable day "as long as you dont tell your mother"!! i will never forget him having to hold the phone about a foot away from his ear when he rang her from A and E to tell her i had broken my arm and wrist at the stable day she didnt know i was at after having a horse bolt down the arena try and jump the fence but didnt and fell back on me!.......OOPS!!

Apart from that, plenty of broken toes due to horses standing on them, a broken foot twice, once when a shire reared and landed on it, the other....:o i was running around the arena leading a tiny pony and jumped over a jump funny and twisted it and broke it.
A broken nose, when i decided it would be a good idea to ride my arab without a martingale!
I tried to get my arab in from the field once in the dark, i shone the torch on hom and he charged at the light and knocked me over and trod on my knee! my mum thought i was making a fuss because i was scared of the dark!
A few broken fingers due to my arabs tendancy to charge off when being led!

I think thats it!!! Im pretty much on first name terms with the staff at the local a and e!!! bl**dy horses :-D
 
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